Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, Syllables, Genders, Email Servers etc.
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 18:34 |
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Nik Taylor wrote at 2004-02-10 02:00:37 (-0600)
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> > Is it ? I thought it was 'computador'.
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> Yep. Just looked it up. It is computadora. Probably influence from
> _la maquina_
>
_La computadora_, yes, but also _el ordenador_. As I learnt it, the
terms are synonymous (but hopefully one of our resident Spanish
speakers can confirm or deny this - my Spanish is pretty poor). This
must be convenient to individuals who find themselves thinking of
particular machines as possessing particularly masculine or feminine
traits.
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